From opioids to endocannabinoids, an exercise scholar digs into the science to explain the mental health benefits of a regular workout.

There are currently no effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, which causes may elders to live their last years without recognizing their loved ones, and unable to care for themselves.
(Shutterstock)March 15, 2018

Children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder should be offered extra support at school.

A 2015 study from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse describes youth perceiving marijuana as “relatively harmless” and “not as dangerous as drinking and driving.”
(Unsplash/Conor Limkbocker)January 25, 2018

To learn why some new nonprofits prosper when others do not requires dealing with the fact that everyone has trouble remembering things the way they happened.

Human memories are malleable. U.S. President Donald Trump seems aware of this truism as he effectively moulds and shapes American minds with deceptions and exaggerations.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)December 6, 2017

When dementia patients use photos and music to produce digital stories about events in their lives, they start to remember. They also face their fears about the disease, and experience happiness.

Vinyl records and cassette tapes, the parties that went with them, and other hedonistic pleasures from our youth can form a big part of our identity years later.
from www.shutterstock.comSeptember 5, 2017